"a British Comedy Award and a Brit Award for the soundtrack. William ""Will"" Thacker owns an independent book store in Notting Hill. He shares his house with an eccentric, carefree Welshman named Spike and has a small, tight knit group of friends that includes Bella, Max, Bernie, and Tony, and his sister Honey. Will encounters Hollywood actress Anna Scott when she enters his shop. Later, he bumps into her on the street and spills his drink on her. She returns to his nearby house to change her clothes and impulsively kisses him. Will calls Anna and she invites him to"
"The Anna Nicole Smith Story The Anna Nicole Smith Story (working title: ""Anna Nicole: The Movie"") is the title of a 2007 biographical film depicting the life of Anna Nicole Smith, released on DVD on September 22, 2009. The film has been released by Nasser Entertainment Group and stars Willa Ford in the title role. The film's production was described as ""fast track"" by the film's producer, Joseph Nasser. Both ""Insider"" and ""Entertainment Tonight"" have paid special attention to the film's progress. On April 26, 2007, ""ET"" gave an exclusive sneak peek at the film, showing parts of both Daniel's"
"Anne dies during that trip. Charlotte is the only survivor among the four siblings. Left alone with her elderly father, she pursues her literary career and begins a romantic relationship with Arthur Nicholls, her father's curate. In the company of Mr. Nicholls and her publisher, Mr Smith, Charlotte goes to the opera in London and meets the famous author William Thackeray. Since the silent era Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" were adapted in to film multiple times. The most famous adaptations were William Wyler ""Wuthering Heights"" in 1939, (a film starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon) and"
"of her non-stop partying lifestyle and bad choices in boyfriends. Wanting a major life change, she wanders into Stacked Books, a small, family-run bookstore owned by Gavin Miller (Elon Gold) and his brother, Stuart (Brian Scolaro). Divorced and unlucky in love himself, Gavin's inclined to regard Skyler as an embodiment of the vacuous, image-obsessed culture he has come to abhor. Stuart, however, is dazzled by Skyler's beauty and, much to Gavin's horror, offers her a job at their store, which she happily accepts as the first step in her quest for a steadier lifestyle. Unhappy that she's going to be"
"and Anna's death scenes and exclusive interviews with the cast. The film was released on DVD on September 22, 2009 two years after filming was completed. The Anna Nicole Smith Story The Anna Nicole Smith Story (working title: ""Anna Nicole: The Movie"") is the title of a 2007 biographical film depicting the life of Anna Nicole Smith, released on DVD on September 22, 2009. The film has been released by Nasser Entertainment Group and stars Willa Ford in the title role. The film's production was described as ""fast track"" by the film's producer, Joseph Nasser. Both ""Insider"" and ""Entertainment Tonight"""
"a feature film, which was directed by Nick Cassavetes and released on June 26, 2009. It starred Cameron Diaz as Sara and Alec Baldwin as Campbell. Kate and Anna were played respectively by Sofia Vassilieva and Abigail Breslin. The film features an alternate ending and more emphasis on certain subplots while entirely eliminating others. This was against the wishes of Picoult. My Sister's Keeper (novel) My Sister's Keeper is a 2004 novel written by Jodi Picoult. It tells the story of thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she discovers she was supposed to donate a"
"Fight Club Fight Club is a 1999 film based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It was directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontent with his white-collar job. He forms a ""fight club"" with soap salesman Tyler Durden (Pitt), and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter). Palahniuk's novel was optioned by 20th Century Fox producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the"
"as Fred/Bob Arctor and Winona Ryder as Donna. Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey, Jr., and Woody Harrelson co-star as Arctor's drugged-out housemates and friends. The film was directed by Richard Linklater. An unabridged audiobook version, read by Paul Giamatti, was released in 2006 by Random House Audio to coincide with the release of the film adaptation. It runs approximately 9.5 hours over eight compact discs. This version is a tie-in, using the film's poster as cover art. A Scanner Darkly A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1977. The semi-autobiographical story is"
"the audiobook edition of the novel for ""Library Journal"", Scott R. DiMarco called the story a ""gripping, hauntingly told tale"" and recommended that libraries purchase the audiobook. The novel was optioned in 2006, but the project's initial financing was lost in early 2010. The project was revived later that year. A film adaptation of the book, entitled ""Lawless"" and directed by John Hillcoat, was released on 31 August 2012. The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jason Clarke as the three Bondurant brothers. Also in the film are Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, and Mia Wasikowska. The screenplay"
"Society"" (2011) ""Slasher Girls & Monster Boys"" (Anthology) (2015) - ""On the I-5"" (Short Story) ""Violent Ends"" (Anthology) (2015) - ""Burning Effigies"" (Short Story) (2015) ""His Hideous Heart"" (Anthology ) (2018) In 2016, ""Twilight"" author Stephenie Meyer purchased the rights to turn ""Anna Dressed in Blood"" into a feature film through her production company Fickle Fish Films. In May of that same year, it was announced that Maddie Hasson and Cameron Monaghan had been cast in the roles of Anna and Cass Lowood, respectively. At that time, Trish Sie was named as the director, though later she was replaced by"
"Digital 5.1 and 2.0 tracks. Upon its release on DVD, ""Miracle at St. Anna"" debuted in eighth place, selling 142,782 units in its first week. In North America, the film has grossed $10.1 million from DVD sales. Miracle at St. Anna Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 AmericanItalian epic war film adapted by James McBride from his 2003 novel of the same name. Directed by Spike Lee, it stars Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valentina Cervi. Set primarily in Italy during German-occupied Europe in World War II, the film tells the story"
"extremely rich oil tycoon Duster Hayward (Gregory). He drives to Florida in his red 1959 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Racer to find himself. When Scott stops for gas and refreshments, he encounters Tom Wilson (Hutchins), who is on his way to take a job as a water skiing instructor at a Miami hotel. A chance remark by Tom gives Scott the idea to switch identities with Tom so he can find out how people react to him as an ordinary person rather than as a millionaire. Tom has fun staying at the same hotel and pretending he is rich. Shortly after,"
"are: Jim Downey, Terry Jones, Diablo Cody, Paul F. Tompkins, Michael Schur, Henry Beard, Megan Amram, Carol Kolb, Dave Hill, James L. Brooks, Marc Maron, George Saunders, Alan Spencer, Amy Poehler, Adam McKay, Bill Hader, Mel Brooks, and Patton Oswalt. Mike Sacks is the publisher of the reported re-release of the 1977 trucking and CB movie, ""Stinker Lets Loose!"" He also wrote the foreword. In 2018 ""Stinker Lets Loose!"" was released as an audiobook via Audible. Sacks teamed up with director Eric Martin to adapt the novelization into a fully immersive cinematic audio experience starring Jon Hamm as Stinker, Rhea"
"after."" The idea for adapting the book into a film came about when director Mel Stuart's ten-year-old daughter read the book and asked her father to make a film out of it, with ""Uncle Dave"" (producer David L. Wolper) producing it. Stuart showed the book to Wolper, who happened to be in the midst of talks with the Quaker Oats Company regarding a vehicle to introduce a new candy bar from its Chicago-based Breaker Confections subsidiary (since renamed the Willy Wonka Candy Company and sold to Nestlé). Wolper persuaded the company, which had no previous experience in the film industry,"
"film version in exchange for the candy bar tie-in. Quaker, who had previous experience in the film industry, bought the rights to the book and financed the picture for the purpose of promoting their new ""Wonka Bar"". The name of Dahl's ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" however was renamed to ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" for promotion purposes. The new brand was produced by Chicago-based company Breaker Confections (a subsidiary of Quaker Oats), which in 1975 was acquired by Sunmark Corporation of Saint Louis, Missouri. The original Wonka Bars never saw store shelves due to factory production problems prior"
"William Scott), a trainee firefighter practicing in a shack in the desert near Glen Canyon, Arizona, sees a meteor strike his car and land in an underground cavern. College professor Ira Kane (David Duchovny) and his colleague, geology Professor Harry Block (Orlando Jones), investigate, taking a sample of strange blue liquid that oozes from it. Ira discovers that it harbors extraterrestrial single-celled nitrogen-based organisms multiplying exponentially, condensing millions of years of evolution within a matter of hours. The next day, they take the science class to survey the meteor site and find it already surrounded by evolved oxygen-converting fungi and"
"make way for a shopping complex and multiplex theater. Sidney Skolsky, a syndicated Hollywood gossip columnist for the ""New York Daily News"" who was the first journalist to use the nickname ""Oscar"" for the Academy Award in print, made Schwab's famous in the 1930s. He used the drugstore as his office, and called his column in ""Photoplay"", the premiere movie magazine in the U.S. at the time, ""From A Stool At Schwab's"". A persistent Hollywood legend has it that actress Lana Turner was ""discovered"" by director Mervyn LeRoy while at the soda counter at Schwab's. While the 16-year-old Turner was"
"Miracle at St. Anna Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 AmericanItalian epic war film adapted by James McBride from his 2003 novel of the same name. Directed by Spike Lee, it stars Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valentina Cervi. Set primarily in Italy during German-occupied Europe in World War II, the film tells the story of four Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division who seek refuge in a small Tuscan village, where they form a bond with the residents. The story is presented as a flashback, as one survivor, Hector Negron"
"big fashion trend. She wants a new look for the magazine. Maggie wants the look to be both ""beautiful"" and ""intellectual"". She and famous fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) want models who can ""think as well as they look."" The two brainstorm and come up with the idea to find a ""sinister-looking"" book store in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. They subsequently find a bookstore named ""Embryo Concepts"". Maggie and Dick take over Embryo Concepts, which is being run by the shy bookshop clerk and amateur philosopher, Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Jo thinks the fashion and modeling industry"
"third film adaptation of the novel, after the 1976 film ""Freaky Friday"" starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and the 1995 television film ""Freaky Friday"" starring Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffmann. It was released on VHS and DVD on December 16, 2003 by Walt Disney Home Video. Anna Coleman is an average teenager with a stressful life due to her stodgy widowed mother, Tess, and annoying younger brother, Harry. Several conflicts are happening in Anna's life: Tess' upcoming second marriage to Ryan, which Anna is not emotionally ready for due to her father's death three years before, Anna's band, Pink"
"the result of her calculating and manipulative nature, Jim impulsively hurls a cup of soda at the limo before making a quick getaway. Jim later speaks to a group of elementary school students at the museum, refusing to respond to the raised hand of an overeager girl who reminds him of Tracy Flick. Director Alexander Payne had become a fan of the novel by Tom Perrotta on which the film is based; the novel's rights were sold to Payne in January 1997. The novel was inspired by two key events. The first was the 1992 Bush vs. Clinton election campaign,"
"the books remain available. The series had a cameo role in the 1998 film ""You've Got Mail"", in which bookstore owner Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) describes the first two books of the series to young Annabel Fox (Hallee Hirsh), who immediately decides she wants them all. The Betsy-Tacy Society bought and restored the childhood homes of Maud Hart (""Betsy's House"") and Bick Kenney (""Tacy's House""), and operates them as a museum. In 2010, the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations designated the site a National Literary Landmark. The Minnesota History Center has included Maud Hart Lovelace as one"
"Day Off"". It portrayed Ferris as Tyler Durden and Cameron as the narrator, ""claiming to see the real psychological truth behind the John Hughes classic"". The second video ""Jane Austen's Fight Club"" also gained popularity online as a mash-up of ""Fight Club""s fighting rules and the characters created by 19th century novelist Jane Austen. Fight Club Fight Club is a 1999 film based on the 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It was directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontent with his white-collar job. He forms"
"the sequel to ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", continuing the story of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. ""Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"" was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" is a 1971 musical film adaptation of the 1964 novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Mel Stuart, and starred Gene Wilder as Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket"
"success and for everyone to love her. Signing a pact with Alan in wet cement, Barbara Ann soon has the 12 cashmere sweaters needed to join an exclusive girls' club. She drops out of school to become the principal's new secretary and gets involved in church activities run by strait-laced but hyper-hormonal Bob Bernard. When Barbara Ann decides she wants Bob for her husband, Alan facilitates this by keeping Bob's eccentric mother Stella, who disapproves of Barbara Ann, perpetually drunk. Then Barbara meets schlock producer T. Harrison Belmont, the King of Beach Party movies, and decides to become the biggest"
"I would listen to Oliver on the phone and sometimes he talks very rapid-fire, the way Gordon Gekko does"". Stone cites as influences on his approach to business, the novels of Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis and Victor Hugo, and the films of Paddy Chayefsky because they were able to make a complicated subject clear to the audience. Stone set the film in 1985 because insider trading scandals culminated in 1985 and 1986. This led to anachronisms in the script, including a reference to the Space Shuttle ""Challenger"" disaster, which had not yet occurred. Stone met with Tom Cruise about playing"
"the film, under their Annapurna Pictures and Gloria Sanchez Productions, respectively. In May 2018, Billie Lourd and Skyler Gisondo joined the cast of the film. That same month, Jason Sudeikis, Lisa Kudrow, Jessica Williams, Will Forte, Mike O'Brien, Mason Gooding, Noah Galvin, Diana Silvers, Austin Crute, Eduardo Franco, Molly Gordon, and Nico Hiraga joined the cast of the film. Principal photography began in May 2018. It is scheduled to be released on May 24, 2019. Booksmart (film) Booksmart is an upcoming American comedy film, directed by Olivia Wilde, from a screenplay by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman, and Susanna"
"the majority residents in the central Mohawk Valley at the time, and William Caldwell. It also features such historical events as the Battle of Oriskany and the Attack on German Flatts (1778). The novel was a commercial and popular success, remaining on the bestseller list for two years. In 1939, the book was adapted for a Technicolor feature film of the same name directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver, Ward Bond, and John Carradine. Historian Edward Countryman has argued that, while the film incorporates characters, plot, and dialogue from the novel, it differs"
"(). In 1997 Titan Books released a hardcover edition (). Noticeably, it is the first Sin City trade paperback to include color in the story. In the film adaptation, Bruce Willis stars as Hartigan, Jessica Alba as Nancy, Nick Stahl as the Yellow Bastard/Junior, Powers Boothe as Senator Roark and Michael Madsen as Hartigan's partner, Bob. There are only a few notable differences in the film version: Mort is replaced by Bob when Hartigan is released from prison, and an appearance by Carla Gugino as Lucille is omitted (but reinstated in the extended version released to DVD). In the DVD"
"feature film of the same name. Released in 1999, the film was directed by Darabont and starred Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecombe and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey. The setting is changed from 1932 to 1935 in order to include the film ""Top Hat"", which does not appear in the book. The Green Mile (novel) The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in"
"library at closing time. What begins as a nonviolent Occupy sit-in and ragtag act of civil disobedience quickly escalates into a standoff with local riot police, led by a no-nonsense crisis negotiator (Alec Baldwin) and a savvy district attorney (Christian Slater) with lofty political ambitions, all as two librarians (Emilio Estevez and Jena Malone) are caught up in the middle of it. In December 2016, it was announced that Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone, Taylor Schilling and Rhymefest would be joining Emilio Estevez in the film. A few days later, it was announced that Gabrielle Union had been cast in the"
"Francesca Hilton Oscar winner Shirley Jones, actors and Academy Award nominated screenwriters Renée Taylor & Joe Bologna, actor Ed Lauter, Director/Producer Stanley Kramer, Tina Louise, Pat Boone, author/illustrator Maurice Sendak, Jeraldine Saunders, author, nationally syndicated Astrologer's column, and creator of The Love Boat Television series, Michael King of King World Entertainment, Peter Nygard-Nygard International and actress Lana Clarkson Lozzi's tribute to his twenty five year relationship with Lana Clarkson was made public by his guest editorial in the Huffington Post. Clarkson was murdered in 2003 by record producer Phil Spector. Corporate clients have included Chasen's Restaurant and the Academy of"
"star. In 1981, Hicks starred in CBS's remake of Jacqueline Susann's ""Valley of the Dolls"", as Anne Wells, an entertainment lawyer, and James Corburn's protege. She made her feature-film debut in the thriller ""Death Valley"" (1982) as Peter Billingsley's mother, Sally. That same year, she starred as Sable in ""Better Late Than Never"". After passing on TV series ""Private Benjamin"", ""Foul Play"", and ""Cagney and Lacey"", Hicks took the lead role as Amanda Tucker in the 12-episode detective series ""Tucker's Witch"" opposite Tim Matheson as Rick Tucker. The program aired on CBS from October 6, 1982, sporadically into August, 1983."